KASE determined leading operators of stock exchange's corporate bonds market in Kazakhstan in February and the first 2 months of 2006

/IRBIS, Assel Omarova, March 6, 06/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has determined leading operators of stock exchange's corporate bonds market in February, 2006. Companies are ranked according to the stake of deals made by it in total gross turnover of trades (total of purchased and sold shares). At that, only operations of purchase and sale in secondary market are taken into account, excluding work of brokers with government blocks of shares (GBS). Position of each participant of trades is expressed in Kazakhstan tenge. A total of 39 companies in February participated in making in KASE's shares purchase and sale deals. Below is the list of ten most active operators in descending order of their stakes in total deals volume (all headquarters are in Almaty, if the other is not given). Stake of these operators in February was 75.8% of turnover of corresponding sector of stock exchange. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Position in Position in Stake in February January Brief name trade 2006 2006 of company volume, % ----------- ----------- ----------------------------------- --------- 1 1 TuranAlem Securities JSC 23.0 2 6 PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC 10.2 3 2 Bank TuranAlem JSC 8.2 4 13 Kazakhstan financial company JSC 7.4 5 3 KIB ASSET MANAGEMENT JSC 6.7 6 4 KG Securities JSC (Karaganda) 6.3 7 10 ATFBank JSC 3.9 8 25 Halyk Finance JSC 3.6 9 7 APF Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC 3.5 10 11 PAIMO ABN AMRO Asset Management JSC 3.0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Newcomer of the "active ten" relative to January 2006 became Kazakhstan financial company JSC, Halyk Finance JSC and PAIMO ABN AMRO Asset Management JSC, they have replaced RG Securities JSC (Almaty, the fifth position in January), Kazkommertskommerts JSC (Almaty, the eighth position in January) and BANK CASPIAN JSC (Almaty, the tenth position in January). Below is corresponding table of the most active KASE's members of "P" and "H" categories in the sector in the first 2 months of 2006. A total of 41 companies participated in making deals in this period. Stake of best "ten best" was 81.8% of gross-turnover of deals of shares purchase and sale in KASE. --------------------------------------------------------------- Posi- Brief name of Stake in gross tion company volume of trades, % ----- ----------------------------------- ------------------- 1 TuranAlem Securities JSC 38.8 2 Bank TuranAlem JSC 13.5 3 KIB ASSET MANAGEMENT JSC 5.9 4 PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC 5.7 5 KG Securities JSC (Karaganda) 4.3 6 Kazakhstan financial company JSC 3.6 7 APF Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC 3.0 8 RG Securities JSC 2.6 9 ATFBank JSC 2.4 10 PAIMO ABN AMRO Asset Management JSC 2.0 --------------------------------------------------------------- [2006-03-06]